Transatlantic accent tiktok

[@dollman20]

I just can’t do it without immediately slipping into a British accent.

[@DogFlamingoXIII]

It's okay. She can't either.

[@notforgetful4926]

revert to factory settings

[@lixak6307]

Me too, I learned RP as my first accent for a show I was in and then six shows after that. It’s so difficult for me to do any other kind of English m m, I always end up sounding like Queen Elizabeth II

[@WhoThisMonkey]

As a British person, I'm willing to wager, you are slipping into what you think is a British accent. But it's more likely that accent Americans do when they are trying to be British.

[@latteknowsbest6365]

It’s a part of me now

[@insertname1857]

she's REALLY good at the transatlantic accent, wow

[@jeremiahnoar7504]

It's an insanely interesting dialect. It wasn't natural, and no country spoke it. But it was a fad that they taught in school in the 40s because it combined the most sophisticated idiosyncrasies of both England and the US. I don't know of any other accents that came to being like that.

[@RandomPerson-us5fn]

it is natural when you grow up with it. that is what natural is.

[@jeremiahnoar7504]

@Random Person by an unnatural dielect, I mean thar it didn't evolve over the course of, say 1000s of years. It was "invented" for the sake of sounding high class. And they did a good job because it does sound very high class!

[@blake8357]

no, it was created in the 20's so words could be heard better because of the high frequency

[@beamboy07]

​@@jeremiahnoar7504thats literally where the American accent comes from

[@jeremiahnoar7504]

@@beamboy07 the which American accents? Western? Souther? Because both of those predate the trans Atlantic accent by about 200 years. The Trans Atlantic was implemented artificially to make Americans sound more sophisticated.

[@LyraDavis]

I’m English and when I was a child I always thought the transatlantic accent was British people who hadn’t lived in America for very long… so their British accent was softened around the edges with an American twang! I loved it (still do) and always tried to emulate it at school 😂

[@marcelusdarcy]

Same lol

[@yolanda6392]

Same 🤣

[@angelintodemonseed]

As an American, pretty much the same.

[@nodrvgs]

that makes sense 😂

[@1FontaineCreaturae]

So basically Transatlantic is the same accent we all admire in most American film noirs.

[@LuckySketches]

Not just noir films, but tons and tons of old films used the accent! TV and radio too. You could even consider it the Hollywood accent if you really wanted to. Well, of its time of course.

[@zephyrias]

@@LuckySketchesthat accent is fun to mimic especially if one watches lots of old black and white films

[@Calypso694]

Correct. Mostly ANY film from the late 20s talkkies to even the 60s.

[@Nakrawedzi12]

​@Calypso694yes, the "sounds of music" has it

[@crooker2]

The transatlantic accent was born because of the imperfection of Hollywood sound and film equipment... It das a way actors could make speech and mannerisms a bit easier to understand (both aurally and visually). As movie sound and imagery got better, actors started making their dialog and acting a bit more realistic and the transatlantic lilt started to fade.

[@darthvader3910]

She's right, It's SUCH a good accent, sexy and powerful whilst being a beautiful hybrid of the american and the british rp.

[@jeremynv89523]

I've wondered for a long time how British people perceived the transatlantic accent. Now you've told me you think it's beautiful. As an American, I agree. Thank you for responding.

[@darthvader3910]

@jeremynv89523 well im not british im from nz lol. The NZ accent is the derived form of the British rp and a slew of other british mixed with indigenous accents

[@jeremynv89523]

@darthvader3910 :) the joke is on me. I erroneously assumed that you were British due to your use of the word "whilst".

[@darthvader3910]

@@jeremynv89523 aaahhh ok lol

[@Lily-ok9lp]

@@jeremynv89523very late but as a certified British™️ I adore the transatlantic accent it’s beautiful, way more fun than standard RP.

[@mingluke12]

You did a wonderful job at the beginning when you flip the modern conversation to the trans Atlantic accent. It sounds so much like Scarlet in Gone with the wind!

[@taymur0804]

I was literally thinking of Scarlet O'Hara's voice aswell, so graceful

[@mellymetanoia2851]

So basically, just talk like Glenda the Good Witch from Wizard of Oz, and you'll have the Transatlantic accent down pat!!!😂

[@JasminMiettunen]

A lot of movies from that time used it! It’s not a “real” accent in that it’s not natively spoken anywhere, it was taught in acting schools. Actors, voice actors and newscasters used it.

[@JP-ve7or]

Billie Burke (the actress who played Glenda) slayed it! Check out Dinner at 8 if you can find it.

[@UmmJannah5]

I often times burst into a transatlantic accent at work for NO reason at all!😂my coworkers are sick of me!

[@minagelina]

You realize I have to do that now, right?! I did do another accent at work as well....oh yeah it was Fran Drescher 😅

[@redSUPERMAN2]

Damn, I feel bad for your coworkers lmao

[@wizardlizard55555]

@@redSUPERMAN2 I smell a hater 👀

[@redSUPERMAN2]

@@wizardlizard55555 I know! And a proud one haha

[@Zuzzamma]

I would love to experience that!

[@dazzlingdexter5060]

😂 the switch sounds like such a diss. "I Do pitty you"

[@dickottel]

I doo pitteh yoo

[@nochance8825]

I like this. I feel like the accent also changes verbiage bc no one says things like “I will never ever leave you,” anymore, 😄.

[@The_Beast_666]

Please elaborate. I ain't from the US and English is not my first language but I am extremely fluent in it. So hypothetically speaking would it be weird let's say if I said this exact same sentence to my American GF?

[@nochance8825]

@@The_Beast_666 As someone from the US, we say “I won’t leave you.” Saying “I will never ever leave you,” wouldn’t be weird, but it is not common.

[@nonsonomoltobravoconinomi1531]

@@The_Beast_666 it's not exactly weird but it is extra, which makes sense cause this accent was made up by the rich to set themselves apart and show off their access to higher education by flexing their vocabulary to the "dirty commoners" as usual, and in films the espressivity and expressions characters would use are futher exagerated for dramatic effect. in short it's overly formal for talking to people in real life and kinda makes you sound like a classist douche, which is why films have dropped it once people agreed that talking like that in real life was kinda lame, which is a bit of a shame because it is pretty expressive and sounds nice, but it's noble origin unfortunately makes the accent sound kinda ridiculous to modern English speakers.

[@insertname1857]

huh???? tf do you mean. maybe YOU wouldnt say that personally, but as an american i would. theres literally nothing wrong with that sentence

[@james-cucumber]

@@insertname1857seconded. As a native SSB (Standard Southern British) speaker, that’s well within my idiolect. I’d only say it if I was trying to emphasise the fact that I’d *never* leave the listener.

[@feelincrispy7053]

This reminds me of Stewie saying quip like qwhip

[@fruitbattery]

You cant have pie without cool wHip

[@aznbreakerboi51o]

I need more like this. I want to learn to speak like this for a full day at Disneyland.

[@drewzalo]

Why Disneyland?

[@sem_re]

​@@drewzalo a lot of old movies like Disney movies had characters with the transatlantic accent I think

[@parkerevergreen4812]

all i can hear is alice from alice in wonderland

[@hentai7444]

Looks like her too

[@myleechai21603]

Same!

[@crooker2]

Your transatlantic accent is impeccable. I often break into it for fun or to be funny or to emphasize a particular phrase or quote. (to sound old-timey) As someone who loves peculiar speech patterns, your transatlantic is music to me. Well done.

[@soulextracter]

"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."

[@OnimoIndustries]

Personally the Transatlantic accent feels like a more humble British accent

[@Aaron19987]

It actually sounds like a posh received-pronunciation brit spent 5 years in the US

[@GribGFX]

It sounds a lot posher than modern British accents

[@OnimoIndustries]

@@GribGFX cause the Brit’s are all poor and stuff now

[@GribGFX]

@@OnimoIndustries I'd say that's a bit more humble no

[@OnimoIndustries]

@@GribGFX yeah

[@mdoering]

This is the absolute best how-to I've ever seen on this accent.

[@herrflammen6487]

0:35 is hard because the antebellum accent already does that. (For those of you who don’t know: the antebellum accent is in reference to the southern accent spoken by plantation owners during and before the mid to late 1800s.)

[@Bluehousesys]

I need to read things in a note-like format to understand them, so posting this here incase it would help anyone else, too! 1: Drop your R's 1.5: Interrupting R's 2: "Oo" sound 3: Open "Ah" vowels 4: "Ee" to "Eh" 5: Hard "T" sound 6: "Wh" sound 7: "Yu" sound Listened to examples: 1: Drop your R's- "I will nevah evuh leave you" - Neah, Evuh, Feah 2: Hard ooo's - Yoo, Doo, Too - Hoot like an owl 3: Open vowel sounds- Tah, Tay, Tee, Toe, Too - CLAHssical MAHsterpieces 4: Words that end with "y" sounds turn into "eh" -- happeh, loveleh, pretteh (I'm so happeh too see yoo on this loveleh dey) 5: Make your t's hard - Watuh, Buttuh. (water, butter) 6: Make your "wh" sounds breathy/whispy. -- What, When, Where, Why = wuhhat, wuhhen, wuhhere, wuhhy 7: "U" sound - Duty, Tuesday, Institution = Dyuty, Tyuesday, Intsityution

[@emilylike-the-soup2502]

#6 - in Transatlantic (among other dialects) you reverse the “w” and “h” sounds in “wh-“ words. So it’s more like “hwen,” “hwat,” etc.

[@bedro_0]

If i get rejected in a transatlantic accent, I am kurting my cobain

[@vidamvtl9321]

2:29 Cool Hu-whip

[@keegster7167]

you don't need to pronounce it after sounds like M, N, and L. People who pronounce "wh" differently from "w" (like me and my grandparents) still pronounce somewhere as somewere or Cool-Whip as coolwip

[@meowsmyths]

Old English scholar here, actually learning the language. this is HILARIOUSLY close to OE pronunciation/accent in so many ways, and not just in the aspects it shares with modern British English. good gods, the 21st century is glitching back into the 400s A.D. so hard.

[@sycration]

next we will bring back the case system!

[@bia.M]

wow she’s really good at it

[@hellostranger9427]

Watching a bunch of 1950s movies/shows is how I learned mine although not as perfect as yours 😅 great video!!

[@Marvellous328]

‘Why should I?’ ❤ I love the classic sound

[@milantehrandubai]

I agree, it's so interesting, glamorous, and fun!

[@user-oo8xp2rf1k]

As a British person it's interesting hearing a posh American accent. It's lovely actually.

[@katamattyon]

Sticking to my cisatlantic accent, thanks

[@dickottel]

queeratlantic is better

[@rosie2341]

how to always sound like you’re in an old movie

[@throughthe_looking_glass]

It’s really interesting that this is how a lot of urban Indian gen z speak! We were colonised the Brit’s for 200 years so we already kinda do things like emphasise ts and not roll our rs. Mix this with the huge wave of American media teenagers consume and bam. Desi transatlantic accent.

[@sandro327]

You sound nothing like this 😭

[@throughthe_looking_glass]

@@sandro327 who is "you" here?

[@iffatdilshad7048]

Ikrr

[@mizusenshi8172]

This definitely sounds like what I have heard in old movies (where the Transatlantic accent was often used). Also if you want a more modern example, listen to Rarity in MLPFIM. She speaks in a sort of Transatlantic accent.

[@cinti525]

You do a great job with this accent, and I agree, I would LOVE to see it come back. It's so clear and easy to understand.

[@itsgonnaBmay]

Weirdly, I'm English and do a lot of this stuff (to a lesser degree.) People often ask me where I'm from or sometimes if I'm american. I think it's probably related to me being autistic bc my parents don't sound exactly like me, or I sometimes wonder if I might be overcompensating for a mild speech impediment by over-ennunciating

[@user-df8rp1kn4v]

Love the transatlantic accent. It sounds so classy compared to standard American .

[@whitequasar4686]

If you have a southern accent you already have a head start

[@ameliabond5244]

Something that I think is another tip is slide some of your words. I don’t know how to demonstrate in writing, but I’m going to try. When saying the word “do” start the “oo” sound lower and end a bit higher. It doesn’t have to be big, but that’s something I’ve noticed. Especially in singing. Listen to cinderella

[@koduflower2000]

With this video, it helped me understand what transatlantic accent was. Thanks for the video! 👍😉❤️

[@hipstarchild]

I love the transatlantic accent and you've nailed it ❤

[@okryansure]

This is so good!! The way you do it reminds of the old Alice in Wonderland movie. 😍

[@brionnachristine4674]

Exactly!

[@silviocaesar]

"Tah, Tay, tee, toe, too". Now, that line, you got it from Singing in the rain, ain't that right? Nice vid.🙂

[@flabiger]

"I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ... Put together!"

[@JP-ve7or]

​@flabiger "And I cahn't stann'im!"

[@muskinator]

This video is living in my head rent free❤

[@leigh1266]

I'm from the south near Nashville & I was just telling my husband how my grandmother spoke a different southern accent than those southerners born in the 60s like me. My grandmother would pronounce water like wawta without the R sound and butter like butta also without the R sound!! My father's girlfriend who is 87 also talks in the same accent that my grandmother did! I just think it's interesting and you did a great job with your trans-Atlantic accent!!

[@traumaannellama]

Matt Berry is a good instructor for the transatlantic British Jersey accent if anyone needs some help.

[@JohnDoe-hj9fh]

Gen Alpha gonna sound like old ladies again

[@alicegraham1571]

Thanks! I'm auditioning for a character that speaks with a transatlantic accent and this really helped.

[@icarus4302]

I might not be able to perfect the accent, but my god will be using that "Why should I?" XD

[@susanobrien9917]

This was such fun!!!!! I have no idea why it popped up on my feed but LOVE IT🥰

[@Gravelgratious]

My Grandmother talked like this, she grew up in the Bronx during the 30’s.

[@americandropbear5081]

I feel like Barbara Walters spoke this way.

[@edwardferry8247]

Have you ever been to England 😂 You sound like someone from the 1930s.

[@TGYTCrafts]

Ikr

[@dresdi]

Have you ever been to England lmao , go to Essex and Hampshire and everyone speaks like this

[@TGYTCrafts]

@@dresdi yeah pretty much in the suburban areas but living in the uk myself, the cities are the most diverse.

[@edwardferry8247]

@@dresdi Essex has one of the strongest regional dialects in Britain, indeed it’s famous for its odd and unusual pronunciation. It’s akin to Brooklyn in New York for its strength and unusual timbre. Hampshire has its own original accent and covers very diverse towns. Why anyone would be there speaking like something from a 1930’s Pathe wireless broadcast would be for them to answer I suppose. It’s not a natural English accent, if there is even such a thing seeing as we spoke French by and large for significant portions of our history.

[@dresdi]

@@edwardferry8247 Essex akin to Brooklyn?? 😂😂 You have never heard anyone from there speak

[@chrysalis711]

I love this accent so much

[@nirock2550]

So Alastor’s accent

[@GunFunZS]

My grandmother was from Kansas but she very much spoke in this manner. There's also a pitch shift.vl "hWhy heloOo."

[@juanr9446]

You're a such lovely lady (please read like an transatlantic english) thank you

[@Bblb1997]

number 6 is stewie griffin saying cool whip

[@Squimblorbimblor]

this video is exactly what i wanted

[@rosietyler]

You know her fave movie growing up was Alice in wonderland lololol

[@razrv3lc]

It’s always sounded like the southern belle thing with something else sprinkled onto it

[@Kikua1612]

I great example is the character Bebe on the show “Frasier”. She’s got it DOWN

[@neromillie]

As someone who watches a lot of old movies, the transatlantic accent is one of my faves! Yes, it does sound similar to British, but there is still an American lilt. I can't quite describe it, but if you watch lots of old movies you start to tell the difference. Highly enjoyable.

[@amouryong]

Where i live, a lot of amish folk sound like this when they speak English, probably the only thing ive ever been jealous abt from them 😂

[@The_Beast_666]

This girl could be a language/dialect/accent coach!

[@mary77773]

This is wonderful!

[@RandomPerson-us5fn]

it was real and taught in school north america late 1800s-1900s early

[@carimeslockdownedtree2654]

It sounds natural when i do it - but only when i pitch up my voice. I CANNOT talk that way with my naturally deeper voice.

[@realjohnlove]

The British accent was a recent creation. According to linguist, Brits use to sound like Americans. Which was either the New England accent or the Transatlantic Accent. Or it was both. But Americans didn’t lose their British accents, Brits abandoned it to distance themselves from Americans. Its probably the actual reason for why Brits can imitate Americans so well because their current accents are “evolved” versions of Americans

[@brodftw]

Stewie Griffin then

[@fern7407]

Spot the Alastor fan

[@alexmelendez4529]

Nobody actually spoke in a Transatlantic accent except for people on television and on the news

[@Mmmtruk]

THIS IS SO GREAT WONDERFUL EXPLANATION

[@darwinmurphy]

she sounds exactly like vivienne leigh as Scarlett o'hara

[@nerkoids]

Good video, if I can add one suggestion to truly make it mid-atlantic and not too british - keep the muscularity of your American consonants (sans the terminal r's as you mentioned- meaning non-rhotic) and emphasize your t's. If you make all your consonants too soft, it will sound more like a very bad Britsh Received Pronunciation accent (also another made-up accent). One perfect, well-defined version of a mid or trans-atlantic accent to perhaps emulate for practice... listen to the narrator, Edward Everett Horton in some old Fractured Fairy Tales episodes (you can find them on KZbin)

[@chatryna]

You killed it. But It seems to me that the transatlantic also comes with attitude which you clear got. BTW your American is very lovely. Loved the constrast.

[@EloquentTroll]

I am from the lower midwest, the accent that the US decided was standard after the Transatlantic failed, and I'm very grumpy the we lost our regional accent. Bring Transatlantic back so my region can actually have an accent again. Seriously they just picked the middle of the country and said "that one"

[@Dapper_the_slapper]

Quite a splendid tutorship.

[@cameronlovesyou_]

bro this is insanely good help, im voice acting a transatlantic accented character

[@alZiiHardstylez]

Her little pog out moment after the first one was very endearing.

[@zoilalulu3798]

Just watch Disney movies from the 1950s and you'll nail it.

[@theboredprogrammer1114]

English is my 2nd language and it's fun to try this accent

[@shanalcordo7174]

Pls make more tutorials in case there's more tips. I want to develop this accent.

[@eternalM0TH]

it's like 90% british and 10% american

[@HenryBloggit]

The version she’s presenting here is the feminine version. There’s a male transatlantic accent but it’s very different than this. It’s much faster, sharper, and clipped. Just pointing this out because a man trying to do the feminine transatlantic is going to come off sounding more like a 19th century New Orleans gay vampire.

[@WinstonSmithGPT]

I laugh at the obstinacy of people who insist this was a fake accent, being too young ever to have heard it live from the mouths of those who grew up speaking it. It comes from parts of New England and the mid Atlantic. Katherine Hepburn spoke it since birth and so did her childhood friends, several of whom I personally met. Yes people went to elocution lessons as children and even more as adults if they went into theatre but that was in a time where everyone was taught to speak and write properly, unlike the present

[@HansMoleman-vr2bd]

Funny, I read this in a transatlantic accent

[@user-mc5ch1rs4d]

I heard people actually spoke that way in some parts of the country, way before HW did

[@bigorange000]

That was a very good clahss on the Trans/Mid Atlantic dialect.

[@dempa3]

Cool Hwip

[@astrid123]

Lovely😍🤣so happy I found this!!

[@sunnyiee_03]

THANK YOU SO MUCH MY HALLOWEEN COSTUME THIS YEAR IS THE BLACK DAHLIA I NEEDED THIS

[@Acorn905]

Best Dorothy impression

[@katattacksweetheart]

tip 6 is by doing the h before the w! hwhen, hwhat, etc

[@mylifewithmarmalade4624]

It was never a naturally occurring accent. It was something taught entirely in acting classes and speech classes in the 30s and 40s for members of the press, public figures, and actors/actresses. My understanding was that not only was it intended as a posh sounding American version of British RP, it was also intended to avoid sounds that tended to create issues for early audio amplification and recording, as well as avoid syllables that might become difficult to understand with the limits of early broadcasting equipment.

[@moxyangel]

I always wondered why they spoke differently in old movies! I figured our speech degraded over time but I never knew why.

[@amelioravictoriadionyssia3323]

Its basically just Stewie Griffin's accent

[@simonledoux8519]

Bring it back, baby! It's so much better than uptalk!

[@donnysarian]

FDR spoke in an Transatlantic accent.

[@pumfeethermodynamics3286]

It's still interesting because it isn't like a combination of American and English it's like a combination of American accent with and what Americans thought was an English accent. Ultimately its its own accent.

[@39p50]

I can't speak without slipping into this accent

[@guygryphon]

The Mobituaries Podcast did a wonderful episode on it. They settled on the term "R-less" to describe it

[@calamitytilt]

I thought this was just how they talked in movies/on tv. In normal life, people wouldn't be talking like this right lmao